Climate change is the biggest issue of our time. 2024 marked both the hottest year on record and the highest levels of carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions in the past two million years. Subscribe to our ...

Climate change science is, unfortunately, a controversial topic. Disinformation campaigns driven by political and economic opposition — both historical and current — mean that despite overwhelming ...

New research has found that the world has reached the first of many Earth system tipping points. These will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes urgent action. A tipping point is a moment in ...

Many Australians will have been reading up recently on whether they are likely to be among the 1.5 million reported to be at risk of sea level rise or the 190% increase in heat-related deaths in ...

Editorial: Inadequate food supplies and collapsing rainforests must be recognised as national security threats – not pigeonholed as green issues ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending. Is it? Reading time 8 minutes If a 60-mile-wide (100-kilometer-wide) ...

The Hague District Court, in a stunning rebuke of Dutch authorities, also ruled that the government discriminated against the ...

I was in the shower, getting ready for my nephew’s wedding, when my husband appeared. He was pointing to his iPhone, and I could tell it was bad news: the notification we had been dreading all day. As ...

Pep Canadell receives funding from the National Environmental Science Program - Climate Systems Hub. The climate benefits of planting trees may have been greatly overestimated, but swift action could ...

"Doom-mongering convinces many would-be climate advocates that climate action is a hopeless cause. But the blistering attacks against mainstream climate science and scientists advance an agenda of ...